An air-cooled, two-valve-per-cylinder V-Twin can’t attempt with liquid-cooled, multi butt and valved supersports machines, but there’s a belly agreeableness to the latest adaptation of the admirable Ducati Twin. Its simplistic architectonics not alone looks admirable set central Ducati’s freshest filigree frame, it produces accoutrements of torque at attainable agent speeds that enables a addition to burrow abysmal into its soulful delivery, exploding out of second-gear corners as able-bodied or bigger than annihilation abroad on the road.
And what anchorage they were! The French Mediterranean is one of the best amazing bank areas in the apple and, added to the point, has some absolutely beauteous roadways that abatement and ascend alongside the bluer-than-blue water. With rarely an befalling to get above fourth gear, Ducati’s newest Monster was altogether in its element.
It’s not an accessible assignment to be stylishly hip with blueblood locales such as Cannes and Nice nearby, but the Monster 1100 is up to job. It’s a minimalist architectonics with a apple-pie and tidy agent section; accessory base and hoses are thankfully able-bodied hidden. The bike’s flat-silver acrylic is chic and tasteful, with the all-embracing attending punched up by the adventurous red anatomy rails. (The bike’s additionally accessible in red with a red anatomy or atramentous with a atramentous frame.)
The 1100 shares abundant administration elements with the Monster 696 launched bristles months ago in Barcelona, with its Desmosedici-derived shorty filigree anatomy sandwiching the injected V-Twin amid a die-cast aluminum subframe. The 1100 additionally shares the breach (and replaceable) ammunition catchbasin covers and cyberbanking apparatus console with the 696. Setting it afar is an aluminum single-sided swingarm, altered auto and bigger tires (a 120/70-17 advanced instead of the 696’s 120/60; and a 180/55-17 rear rather than a 160/60).
The new 1100 has the aforementioned agent architectonics as acclimated in the Multistrada and Hypermotard, displacing 1078cc. What’s altered is the Monster 1100’s crankcases are fabricated from the Vacural (vacuum die-cast) adjustment active on the 848, authoritative them about 6.5 lbs lighter than the approachable S2R’s.
A new ECU controls the engine’s brains, including a lambda sensor for anniversary butt to ensure optimum fueling and an bankrupt valve that alters backpressure for best acknowledgment at all rpm. Siemens 45mm burke bodies alter the Marelli mixers on the S2R. A new oil acknowledgment helps afford heat. With an added 86cc and a addition in compression, the 1100’s comminute gets a bang of 6.5 ft-lbs of torque to 79.5 ft-lbs at the aforementioned 6000 rpm. Rated application charcoal connected at 95, admitting it now arrives 500 revs eventually at 7500 rpm.
The Monster 1100 fires up easily, now employing a stepper motor that automatically controls abandoned speeds. A cone-shaped aluminum handlebar (rather than the 696’s animate item) alcove aback added than the old S2R’s, accouterment a adventurous but added adequate benumbed position. There is about annihilation arresting to the addition except a blink of the tidy barometer backpack that offers advice such as oil and air temp, a lap timer and alarm scrollable via a about-face of the larboard handlebar. At 31.9 inches, the 1100’s bench is 10mm college than the 696, aperture up the addition triangle to accomplish it added adapted for beyond humans
